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The voters of Arizona enacted the Citizens Clean Elections Act in 1998 as an effort to ensure against corruption, provide voters with more information about elections, and ensure non-partisan, independent enforcement of election laws.

Bond vs. United States is already famous for its bizarre fact pattern in which a Chemical Weapons Treaty was invoked by the federal government to prosecute an estranged wife’s use of common household chemicals to exact revenge on a cheating husband and his girlfriend.

Arizona’s story of growth and prosperity came through access to a supply of low-cost energy and water that is now at risk. Before World War II, Arizona was a desert outpost — a stopover on the way to California. As the post-war economy blossomed, Arizona remained the rugged West.

For countless centuries, the people of the Gila River Indian Community — the “River People” of Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh ancestry — farmed alongside the central Arizona riverbanks that give our community its name. Our farming heritage taught my people all about the value of diversification and persistence, two key elements that have guided the renaissance of our community’s economy.